special supplement on cocoa flavonols, with 17 articles about chocolate’s health benefits, ranging from lower blood pressure to increased brain blood flow and better skin health (honest!).In November, independent researchers at Johns Hopkins University

Oxygen Power: Performance Tables For Distance Runners in 1979. According to Daniels, who's rarely off by more than a smidgen or two, a VO2 max of 83 roughly suggests a 2:06 marathon....ContinuesRW magazine subscribers can see the article in full here

will drop another 16 seconds in the next 50 years. That takes us, in 2054, to 3:27. There's only one problem: I simply don't believe it. It seems impossibly fast.RW magazine subscribers can see the article in full here. If you'd like to to subscribe and see

's a no-brainer," says physiologist Scott Powers, a free-radical researcher at the University of Florida and author of the 2004 article "Dietary antioxidants and exercise" in the Journal of Sport Sciences. "The problem is, in reality, we have

ultra-marathon runner who completed the 54-mile Comrades Marathon seven times. At the time, he wrote three articles encouraging runners to drink more. Then a strange thing happened in the early 1980s. He started to receive calls from athletes and A

to buy new shoes. You're not going to be doing high mileage at first."This article is a preview of our February 2010 issue, available on the newsstand from January 4. Also in this issue: 21 easy ways to burn fat, an easy-to-follow yoga circuit, stacks

UAN: 160 Article type:--For too many years runners have been told to train as they feel. The problem is that no one tells you how you’re supposed to feel when you’re training right. Lacking this insight, many runners unconsciously fall

250ml glasses of water a day. But there’s little to no evidence supporting the eight glasses rule. The good professor Last summer, Heinz Valtin, the Professor Emeritus of Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School, USA, published a compelling article

a different method. Which raises the point that exercise physiologist Kris Berg explains in his recent article, ‘Endurance Training and Performance in Runners’, published in the journal Sports Medicine. “After decades of studying ways to improve

, that dreaded substance that turns your legs into cement blocks. These days, however, respected and reasonable people are saying some nice things about lactic acid, or at least about the lactate that is quickly produced from lactic acid. In a journal article